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Blended Instruction vs Blended Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Schools continue to make investments in technology to engage students better, improve outcomes, and prepare all learners for the new world of work. We are beginning to see more and more innovative uses of technology not just to personalize, but also to make the learning process more personal. When a solid pedagogical foundation is in place, the stage is set to challenge students to demonstrate thinking and learning in ways that we could never have imagined a few short years ago.

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8 Web Tools and Apps for Creating Animated Character Videos

Teacher Reboot Camp

“Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.” – Walt Disney. Students love creating short films where they create the dialogue and animate the characters. Not only do students learn how to write a script, but they also have to think about the props, music, background, and other elements.

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What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read

TeachThought - Learn better.

What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read by Terry Heick When students say they ‘don’t like reading,’ the first thing I do is skip the preaching and try to relate–to meet them where they are, so to speak. Something like this. [8th grade male, pouting] Them: “I hate reading.” Me: […]. The post What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read appeared first on TeachThought.

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Listening Closely to Student Math Talk

MiddleWeb

Michelle Russell knows that listening to math talk can help students solidify their thinking and recall. Now she's begun to realize how much improvements in her own listening skills could help her with assessment of learning. Check out the helpful resources she found.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Why keeping parents and kids connected in the early years is critical

eSchool News

In more than 60 percent of all two-parent households , both parents work, and in nearly all of these households, at least one parent is employed. This means that the vast majority of parents in our country experience regular and prolonged periods of time away from their children. Since parental involvement is one of the most influential factors in students’ academic success, the question then becomes how to help working parents stay abreast of what their child does when they are apart.

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9 Good Educational Apps Free Today

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 11, 2017 Here is a collection of some good iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time (offer valid at least in the Canadian and American iTunes App Stores). Some of.read more.

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6 Key Considerations When Measuring Technology’s ROI Discussed at #TLTechLive

The Innovative Educator

If you are responsible for integrating technology into schools, then you must be prepared to discuss the return on investment stakeholders can expect to see. Those that don’t, may get caught up in an ed tech frenzy without fully thinking through why technology is important in the first place warns Michael Horn, executive director of the education program at the Clay Christensen Institute.

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An Excellent Scanner App for Teachers and Educators

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

December 11, 2017 Top Folders Pro is an excellent scanner app that offers a wide variety of features. The app is actually on sale, it is free and only for a limited period of time. It’s regular price.read more.

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Google Releases DeepVariant AI For Genomics

TeachThought - Learn better.

Google Releases DeepVariant AI For Genomics by TeachThought Staff Google has announced the release of a new technology to map human genome sequences. By outward appearances, this is a very narrow and niche application of technology that doesn’t have anything to do with 21st century teaching and learning, a lesson here is more relevant for […].

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More charter schools means fewer early education options, new research shows

The Hechinger Report

Instructor Alexis Hollingsworth, 21, uses build-and-learn and colored pattern blocks to teach a 4-year-old class about shapes in Beary Cherry Tree, an early learning center in Metairie, Louisiana. Photo: Della Hasselle. This story was reprinted with permission from The Lens, a nonprofit, in-depth news site serving New Orleans. The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent cha

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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How to measure edtech impact in the ESSA era

eSchool News

The Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN) and Empirical Education Inc. recently released the Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting EdTech Impact research in U.S. K-12 Schools. These guidelines help clarify how research is conducted and how information is presented to users of edtech products based on the changes brought by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

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Collaborative Learning System Focuses on Math

techlearning

The videos are an engaging way to review content, and the collaborative features encourage kids to strive for success.

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Is Your Teaching More Ping-Pong or Volleyball?

MiddleWeb

Curtis Chandler has been guilty of ping-pong teaching that "merely bounces information back and forth between my students and myself." Kids learn more from a volleyball approach where they work together "to set up the shot" through inquiry activities. App tips included.

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Tools Harvard Computer Science Students Use to Collaborate, Stay Organized

MindShift

Harvard University is one of the most selective schools in the United States, so it isn’t the first place that comes to mind when discussing how to make computer science appealing and open to a broad range of students. But Professor David Malan has been experimenting with different ways to make his introductory computer science class (CS50) the type of place where students from many different backgrounds can thrive.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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App of the Week: Gorgeous game brings students into Thoreau’s world

eSchool News

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Walden, a game. What’s It Like?

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap, w/e 12-09-17

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … we congratulate one of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Video of the Week: Make it easy for students and parents to sign up with Seesaw

eSchool News

Ed. note : Video of the Week picks are supplied by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to watch the video at Common Sense Education. Video Description: Here’s a super simple way to get students and parents signed up with Seesaw.

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Moving From Obstacle to Advantage

The Principal of Change

In the same week, I heard the following obstacles shared by two different organizations that were significantly different in the number of students they served: School District 1 – We are so small that we don’t have the resources that we need to do the things that we want. School District 2 – We are so large that there are so many obstacles to get things done across our district.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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NASA: Re-Living the Wright Way

techlearning

Learn more about the lives of Orville and Wilbur for Wright Brothers Day (December 17).

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Reclaiming My Purpose and Voice: Confessions of a Former “Edtech Speaker”

RafranzDavis.com

In 2015, I was selected to repeat my ignite speech on the lack of diversity in edtech ahead of Soledad O’Brien’s keynote during ISTE. It was a monumental moment in that no one had really said those words on that stage before. They’d been said, but not like that. What followed that speech was an influx of emails requesting my presence at conferences.

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TEACHER VOICE: How students in one Massachusetts town learned to love coding

The Hechinger Report

Boy using a tablet. Photo: Jamel Toppin/Mint Images/ZUMA Wire. PLYMOUTH, Mass. — When I was 8 years old, my father began teaching me a programming language called BASIC, using an Epson QX10 computer. I would spend hours coding names and phrases that would scroll across the screen in different shapes and patterns. Within a year, I was coding my very own “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

Hack Education

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software. The issue extends well beyond education technology, of course, and in 2017 we witnessed yet again a number of high profile incidents (including some corporate admissions of breaches

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.